OBIT: Jennie (EVANS) DUCK, 1900, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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MRS. JENNIE DUCK DIES AT HER HOME IN THIS CITY.

  At 8 o'clock yesterday morning Mrs. Jennie Duck, wife of H. B. Duck, 
died at her home, 114 Fifth avenue, of a tumor of the liver.  She had 
been ailing for the past nine weeks.  Deceased was the daughter of 
James and Mary Evans, deceased, and was born at Glen Hope, Clearfield 
county, July 24, 1853.  She was married in 1880, and with her husband, 
came to this city to reside two years ago.  She was a Christian woman 
and a member of the Eighth Avenue Methodist Episcopal church.  She is 
survived by her husband and two sons, Foster and Chester at home.  Also 
by three sisters, Mrs. F. H. Weston, of Frankstown; Mrs. John Saylor, 
of Williamsburg, and Mrs. Dolly Stevens, of Duncansville, and one 
brother, James Evans, of Pine Croft.  Funeral services will be 
conducted at the house at 7.30 o'clock to-night by her pastor, Rev. T. 
S. Wilcox.  The remains will be taken to Royer on the 8 o'clock train 
Thursday morning and interred in the cemetery at that place.

Morning Tribune, Wednesday, January 3, 1900